#111 - What You Feel While Drawing - Notice How Background Sounds Influence Your Concentration
What background sounds are best while drawing?Warm-Up Drawing Exercises
Quickly become better at drawing—without burning out—by using my workbook.
This article will discuss background sounds and how they can be beneficial or detrimental.
Background sounds in a coffee place: you can see many people working behind their laptops in coffee shops. There is something about the sounds there that can help you focus on your work.
Music: Music can get me in the right mood for a piece. You may have luck using the same music while working on a project for a prolonged time. Hearing the music can get you into the right mood to continue working on it.
Podcasts, interviews, audio-only YouTube videos: When I am inking a penciled piece, listening to voices keeps my mind engaged, and I calm down and get into the flow of inking.
I can’t listen to anything while writing text. I love listening to upbeat music while programming as it brings me into that manic nervous focused coding state I love.
While drawing, I love to listen to podcasts and interviews.
YouTube can be great for that, but not the ones where I have to look at the screen because I need to look at what I am drawing.